Neighbor helps man shot during Newport News home invasion

NEWPORT NEWS — Carolyn Paige was sitting near her living room window Wednesday, when she noticed three men outside her King's Ridge apartment.

"I think something is about to happen — this really doesn't look right," she told her husband, Anthony.

Seconds after walking away from the window, her husband yells: "They shot him, they shot him."

Carolyn Paige ran out of her apartment and saw her neighbor in his doorway, lying on his stomach.

Carolyn Paige remembers her neighbor asking, "I can't feel my legs, am I going to be OK?" She grabbed a towel and applied it to the gunshot wound under his arm until the paramedics arrived.

Police have arrested one man in connection to the home invasion and are searching for two others.

According to police, three men knocked on the door and forced their way into the home of the 34-year-old Newport News man, his fiancé and a child. After the shooting, the men fled in a vehicle.

The man was taken to a local hospital, where he was listed Thursday in fair condition. Newport News police could not provide his status on Friday.

Terence Javon Allen, 33, of Newport News, was arrested on charges that include robbery, attempt to commit a felony, malicious wounding and three counts of abduction.

Police have obtained warrants for Cornelius Dwayne White Jr. of the 500 block of Charlemagne Court in Newport News in connection to the robbery. Warrants are on file for two counts of robbery, three counts of abduction, malicious wounding, burglary, seven counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and seven counts of conspiracy to commit felony.

A third suspect has not been identified by police.

Since the shooting, Carolyn Paige said some neighbors have said she and her husband should have stayed out of the situation. Other neighbors told them that they shouldn't have talked to the media for fear of retaliation.

The Paiges disagree.

"We're supposed to stand up for one another in the community," said Carolyn Paige.